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I might be some kind of monster but: I don't see what is bad about my timeline ending. There's no suffering involved (indeed, much less than the timeline continuing.) It's not like we had a civilizational fuckup that lowers our status relative to our modal counterparts; what we would have gone on to do remains unchanged. People would be denied experiences but I don't see how you can endorse that without coming to the repugnant conclusion (which does seem genuinely horrific.)
The question is simply whether annihilating the universe has higher expected value than letting it continue. To determine that, you can't just compare the expected suffering of our future survival against the zero-level suffering of our nonexistence. You also have to factor in the positive experiences that are attainable should we survive, but not if we die.